Nuno Ferreira, Professor of Law at the University of Sussex; Maria Federica Moscati, Reader in Law and Society at the University of Sussex; and Senthorun Raj, Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Metropolitan University What if we queered judgments…
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Queering migration and asylum judgments
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, LGBTQI+, queer migation, SOGIESC
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
Lessons from Cartagena: what can the world learn about migration governance?
Esteban Octavio Scuzarello, is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute, Italy. His work focuses on forced displacement in South America. The 1970s and 1980s are remembered as turbulent years in Latin America, marked by coup d’états, political persecution,…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, Cartagena declaration, forced migration
Posted in Migration Comments
Posted in Migration Comments
The praxis of research about queer migrant lives: an Iranian case study
Moira Dustin; Nuno Ferreira; Kamran Matin; Mehran Rezaei-Toroghi; and Isabel Soloaga – University of Sussex Does an academic, theoretically framed, multidisciplinary research project have anything to contribute to migration policy and practice in the context of discrimination and violence based on…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, Iran, LGBTQ, migration, SOGIESC
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
A European language detection software to determine asylum seekers’ country of origin: Questioning the assumptions and implications of the EUAA’s project
Cecilia Manzotti, Doctoral Researcher, School of Law & SCMR, University of Sussex (UK) In 2022, the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA) reported that seven European Union (EU) member states (Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) and Switzerland,…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Asylum Seekers & Refugees, European Union Asylum Agency
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
Posted in Migration Comments, Migration Research
Solidarity in Europe two years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Dr Rob Sharp, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex It has now been well over two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As of February…
Tagged with: Asylum Seekers & Refugees, participatory methods, solidarity, Ukraine
Posted in Migration Research
Posted in Migration Research
How time reveals hidden power in the refugee camp
Dr Melissa Gatter is Lecturer in International Development (University of Sussex) While a universal experience, the passing of time is not an equal one. For those whose mobility is policed, time becomes more immediately present, almost tangible, as they must…
Damned if you do, damned if you boat
Dr Ceri Oeppen, Co-Director of SCMR Two days ago, the British Government announced it would halt student visas for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan (and for Afghans, skilled work visas too). The Government claims that students from these…
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